breaking news from Taiwan 17 March, 2008

Well, I managed to do what every young person is supposed to do while abroad: I lost my camera. I’d gotten a free pass on study abroad during my junior year, if only because I didn’t actually bring a camera, but it seems you can’t outrun fate. Rather than just stewing about it, I managed [...]

Taiwan! 12 March, 2008

I’m leaving for Taiwan tomorrow for a week of vacation! Plans are, at best, vague — a couple days in Taipei, hot springs, train to Tainan or so, probably one or two other cities, meeting up with Cathy and Tom in Taipei next week — but I have my library copy of Lonely Planet and [...]

experience, reduced like the sauce we put on chicken that time 8 March, 2008

Things I rarely say outside of Hong Kong:“Can I pay and you give me change? I only have hundreds.”“I’ll meet you in front of 7-11.”
Things I rarely say inside Hong Kong:“Oh, no, plenty of legroom.”“Yeah, I might be hard to spot.”
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I like using errands as an excuse to explore places. Yesterday, I went to Aberdeen [...]

the pace of things is picking up 6 March, 2008

Dependably, hope-full-y.
I’m going to Taiwan in a week, and will get to meet up with Cathy and Tom in Taipei.
I’m teaching myself a little html, with the intention of moving on to object-based programming, which replaces unproductive-feeling downtime with productive-feeling skills acquisition (even if the skills themselves are rather rudimentary–the book I’m using begins chapter [...]

links! yay! 3 March, 2008

And by “links”, I mean “link”. But, srsly, it’s really good.
and it’s about Wikipedia(!!!1!11), and it’s quite long, but it makes me feel a bit better about those “quick changes” I sometimes feel like I want to make that turn into hour-plus quests for (citable) evidence.
So, please, humor me on this one.

Also, the article is [...]

2 March, 2008

I’ve continued to sleep much, much more than any reasonable person needs to sleep (and it’s not as if I’m living a particularly active lifestyle right now to justify it). Hm. We’ll see what this week holds on that front.
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What I really wanted to write about is acronyms. When I interned that summer in DC [...]